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The bill increases users' ability to hold large platforms accountable for algorithm-driven physical harms and preserves court access, at the cost of greater litigation risk and operational/legal uncertainty for platforms, potential degradation of algorithmic personalization, and coverage gaps for smaller services.
Children, young adults, parents, and other users gain the right to sue large social media platforms for compensatory and punitive damages when platform recommendation algorithms foreseeably cause bodily injury or death.
Children and young adults benefit from platforms being required to exercise ‘reasonable care’ in algorithm design and operation, which could reduce harmful recommendations linked to self-harm, violence, or coordinated dangerous acts.
Individuals (including those pursuing small-value claims) retain access to public courts because predispute arbitration clauses and class-action waivers cannot block injured users from pursuing claims, preserving transparency and public remedies.
Middle-class families, tech workers, and platform users face higher costs or reduced services because large social media companies will face substantial litigation risk and potential liability that may be passed on to users or lead to cutbacks.
Young adults, parents, and other users may see platforms limit features or broadly reduce algorithmic personalization to avoid liability, degrading useful recommendations and overall user experience.
Users on smaller platforms and members of small online communities may be left without these protections because the bill’s narrowed platform definition and 1,000,000-user threshold exclude many services.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Takes away Section 230 immunity for covered social platforms whose recommendation algorithms negligently cause foreseeable bodily injury or death and allows federal lawsuits for damages.
Introduced November 18, 2025 by John R. Curtis · Last progress November 18, 2025
Creates a legal duty for large social media platforms to use reasonable care when designing, testing, training, deploying, operating, and maintaining recommendation-based algorithms so they do not cause reasonably foreseeable bodily injury or death. If a covered platform fails that duty, it loses a key federal immunity defense and can be sued in federal court for compensatory and punitive damages; arbitration and class‑action waivers cannot be used to block those suits. The measure narrows which services are covered, exempts simple chronological and initial user-initiated search results, preserves other federal and state laws that are at least as protective, includes First Amendment limits on enforcement related to viewpoint, and makes several minor technical edits to unrelated federal statutes.